Technology was the best-performing sector in the S&P 500 last year and is doing its part to prop U.S. stocks in 2018. The iShares U.S. Technology ETF (NYSE: IYW ) is up about 11 percent year-to-date. Technology ...

BlackRock, which manages $6 trillion in investor money, says there is still a “sweet spot” left in the market that tunes out the noise of both U.S. politics and central bank tightening: Emerging-markets ...

Investors have reacted angrily to news that Aviva chief executive Mark Wilson is to take a seat on the board of BlackRock , the world’s biggest fund manager. Aviva has its own fund management arm, Aviva ...

(Reuters) - BlackRock Inc (BLK.N) elected three independent directors to its board, including executives from Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Aviva (AV.L), the world's biggest asset manager said on Thursday. ...

The new directors are Bill Ford, the CEO of private equity firm General Atlantic, Peggy Johnson, the executive vice president of business development at Microsoft, and British insurer Aviva's Chief Executive Mark Wilson. "The three new directors' global perspective and combined expertise in technology, financial services and fast-growing markets, such as Asia-Pacific, reflects BlackRock's current and future priorities," the company said in a statement.

When BlackRock Inc.’s Larry Fink sent a letter to CEOs in January, some executives and directors were stumped about what he meant by asking companies to explain how their business makes “a positive contribution ...

BlackRock Inc. is adding a slate of new board members as the world’s largest money manager tackles two pillars of its growth strategy: technology and international operations. BlackRock, which manages $6.3 trillion in assets, attracted record new investor cash last year, pulling in the equivalent of $1 billion each day.

Globally, exchange traded funds have about $5 trillion in combined assets under management, but the ETF industry is expected to continue growing at a rapid rate over the next several years. BlackRock, ...

BlackRock is overweight local currency emerging market debt, seeing a potential for positive returns and a buffer in spreads as U.S. interest rates rise, Sergio Trigo Paz, the firm's head of emerging market fixed income said on Wednesday. "There are not that many opportunities where you get a positive total return and emerging markets give you that," Trigo Paz told a media briefing in London, adding that synchronised growth was creating a virtuous cycle for emerging markets.

BlackRock is overweight local currency emerging market debt, seeing a potential for positive returns and a buffer in spreads as U.S. interest rates rise, Sergio Trigo Paz, the firm's head of emerging market fixed income said on Wednesday. "There are not that many opportunities where you get a positive total return and emerging markets give you that," Trigo Paz told a media briefing in London, adding that synchronised growth was creating a virtuous cycle for emerging markets.

Talks on Britain's withdrawal of the European Union pose the biggest short-term risk to European financial markets, BlackRock's deputy chief investment officer for fixed income Scott Thiel said on Wednesday. Britain is in the middle of negotiations with the European Union to try to agree the terms of a transition deal to cover the period after it leaves the bloc. Talking about the withdrawal of monetary stimulus by major central banks, Thiel said that he did not think the withdrawal of stimulus in the euro area would be as smooth as it has been in the United States.

In December 2017, BlackRock Inc (NYSE:BLK) released its most recent earnings update. Generally, analyst consensus outlook seem pessimistic, with profits predicted to drop by -7.53% next year relative to theRead More...